Sourcing comparison · Toys & Games
Tariff & fee savings only, assuming equal product cost — your actual landed cost also depends on price and freight, which vary by supplier.
| Annual import value | Estimated duty & fee savings / year |
|---|---|
| $50,000 | $1,319 |
| $250,000 | $6,594 |
| $1,000,000 | $26,375 |
Savings scale linearly with volume. Enter your exact figure to model it precisely.
Calculate your exact volume →If your toys & games currently ships from Vietnam, the duty bill is worth a second look. Vietnam carries roughly 12.5% in duties and fees against 10% for India, a spread worth near $2,638 on $100,000 of annual volume. For a category this exposed to surcharges, the sourcing map is effectively a pricing map. Each component of the two stacks is detailed below, alongside what it means for a real sourcing decision.
The duty layers tell the whole story of the gap. From Vietnam, the entry is assessed a 12.5% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its toys & games, an effective 12.5% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. Sourced from India, the goods face a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty on its toys & games, an effective 10% once the $49.74 in processing fees are added. The $49.74 in processing and harbor fees is the same on both sides, leaving the duty layers as the only mover of the gap. That leaves a $263.75 gap on every $10,000 of goods, driven entirely by the 2.5% spread in effective duty rate. Multiply across your volume and it is near $659 for $25,000 and about $2,638 for $100,000 a year. A buyer placing $25,000 orders sees about $659 of avoidable duty on each one.
The category, HTS 9503, 9504, takes in Action figures, Dolls, Board games, LEGO-style bricks, Puzzles, Stuffed animals, and Outdoor play equipment among other toys & games. Demand for toys & games is broad and price-sensitive, which is exactly why a duty wedge of this size reshapes who can supply the US market competitively. No special exemptions for toys; standard trade remedy procedures available. A Asia-Pacific supplier, Vietnam concentrates its US exports in consumer electronics, clothing garments, and footwear. Vietnam trades under a negotiated bilateral rate that applies alongside the base and Section 232/301 layers, with Section 122 at 0% since its 2026-07-24 lapse — reshaping how its toys & games stack is built. Based in Asia-Pacific, India is best known to US importers for pharmaceutical ingredients, generic drugs, and clothing garments. India trades under a bilateral arrangement that sets a fixed rate on toys & games alongside the standard duty layers. Because both sit in Asia-Pacific, a switch barely changes the freight picture and mostly changes the duty bill. The recommendation is filtered to feasible suppliers, so India appears because it plausibly makes toys & games, not merely because its rate is low. With the US running its highest average tariff in decades, concentrated exposure to one high-duty origin is now a measurable annual cost rather than an abstract risk.
For $100,000 a year of toys & games, the move from Vietnam to India is worth about $2,638, scaling to $1,319 at $50,000, $6,594 at $250,000, and $26,375 at $1,000,000. Every figure is produced by the same tariff engine behind the site's calculators, holding FOB value, freight and insurance constant so only the duty effect of origin shows through. These figures reflect tariff and fee savings only, assuming equal product cost — your actual landed cost also depends on price and freight, which vary by supplier. Treat the annual saving as the ceiling on switching cost: as long as moving to India costs less than that, the change is accretive. Request parallel quotes from your Vietnam incumbent and a vetted India source, then compare landed cost with the duty gap held constant. Lock the comparison to a quote date; a surcharge added or lifted can change the ranking between negotiation and purchase order. Run your own volume — and a post-Section-122 view — through the interactive Tariff Savings Finder.
At $100,000 of annual import value, switching from Vietnam to India saves an estimated $2,638 in duties and fees, because the effective tariff rate falls from 12.5% to 10%. The saving scales linearly with volume. These figures reflect tariff and fee savings only, assuming equal product cost — your actual landed cost also depends on price and freight, which vary by supplier.
India-origin toys & games is assessed a 10% forced-labor Section 301 duty, for an effective 10% duty rate before the Merchandise Processing Fee ($36.55) and Harbor Maintenance Fee ($13.19).
Vietnam carries an effective 12.5% rate versus 10% for India. The gap comes from differences in the base, Section 232 and bilateral rates that apply to each origin.
Tariff rates from Tax Foundation, USITC, and Penn Wharton Budget Model; retaliatory and industry data from the ITA Foreign Retaliations Database and U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS). Last verified .
